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I have a home network consisting of 4 XP Pro computers, 2
XP Home computers and 1 Windows 98 SE computer. Everything
is finally working together except one issue. I think I
have tried everything I can think of to solve this: One of
my computers running XP Pro can not be accessed from any
other computer in the house. I get "Not Accessible .....
Access is Denied" from every other computer. However, I
can ping this machine fine, it has 3 printers shared on it
which I can print to from all machines. It can access the
internet and it can see and access all other computers. I
just can't access it from any other machine.

I have been up and down this forum and have been able to
fix many other problems except this one. Thank you all so
much for the great help!

Please help!
 
"Dana" said:
I have a home network consisting of 4 XP Pro computers, 2
XP Home computers and 1 Windows 98 SE computer. Everything
is finally working together except one issue. I think I
have tried everything I can think of to solve this: One of
my computers running XP Pro can not be accessed from any
other computer in the house. I get "Not Accessible .....
Access is Denied" from every other computer. However, I
can ping this machine fine, it has 3 printers shared on it
which I can print to from all machines. It can access the
internet and it can see and access all other computers. I
just can't access it from any other machine.

I have been up and down this forum and have been able to
fix many other problems except this one. Thank you all so
much for the great help!

Please help!
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Make sure that NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled on the problem computer.
Details here:

Enable NetBIOS Over TCP/IP (NetBT)
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/troubleshoot/netbt.htm

Run "ipconfig /all" on that computer and look at the "Node Type" at
the beginning of the output. If it says "Peer-to-Peer" (which should
actually be "Point-to-Point") that's the problem. It means that the
computer only uses a WINS server, which isn't available on a
peer-to-peer network for NetBIOS name resolution.

If that's the case, run the registry editor, open this key:

HLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netbt\Parameters

and delete these values if they're present:

NodeType
DhcpNodeType

Reboot, then try network access again.

If that doesn't fix it, open that registry key again, create a DWORD
value called "NodeType", and set it to 1 for "Broadcast" or 4 for
"Mixed".

For details, see these Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

Default Node Type for Microsoft Clients
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;160177

TCP/IP and NBT Configuration Parameters for Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314053
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
 
Dana said:
I have a home network consisting of 4 XP Pro computers, 2
XP Home computers and 1 Windows 98 SE computer. Everything
is finally working together except one issue. I think I
have tried everything I can think of to solve this: One of
my computers running XP Pro can not be accessed from any
other computer in the house. I get "Not Accessible .....
Access is Denied" from every other computer. However, I
can ping this machine fine, it has 3 printers shared on it
which I can print to from all machines. It can access the
internet and it can see and access all other computers. I
just can't access it from any other machine.

I have been up and down this forum and have been able to
fix many other problems except this one. Thank you all so
much for the great help!

Please help!
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The fact you can ping it and get a response is a good start.

I don't suppose the in-built ICF (firewall) (or any other firewall for that
matter) is running on the box that cannot be accessed?
If using a firewall like ZAlarm, you need to ensure the trusted zone is
setup for your LAN IP addresses.

If there is no firewall involved, is the guest account enabled?

If not using the guest account, have you got every user logon/password setup
on the inaccessible system as well as the others?
You will also need to ensure that the security policy is setup:
In local security settings, "Network Access Sharing and security model for
local accounts" needs to be set as "classic - local users authenticate as
themselves". and all users ids passwords must be the same *and* exist on all
the systems. The only other security policy option for this is "Guest only"
(this is the
default for XP).

If, like me, you disabled the guest account, this defaultoption won't work.
So you either setup all user ids/passwords on all systems
you wish to network between and set the security policy to "classic" or run
with the XP default and ensure the guest account is enabled from within the
local security policy "accounts: guest account status".

HTH.
 
-----Original Message-----
I have a home network consisting of 4 XP Pro computers, 2
XP Home computers and 1 Windows 98 SE computer. Everything
is finally working together except one issue. I think I
have tried everything I can think of to solve this: One of
my computers running XP Pro can not be accessed from any
other computer in the house. I get "Not Accessible .....
Access is Denied" from every other computer. However, I
can ping this machine fine, it has 3 printers shared on it
which I can print to from all machines. It can access the
internet and it can see and access all other computers. I
just can't access it from any other machine.

I have been up and down this forum and have been able to
fix many other problems except this one. Thank you all so
much for the great help!

Please help!
.
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change the workgroup name and readd it back to the original
workgroup
 
-----Original Message-----
Make sure that NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled on the problem computer.
Details here:

Enable NetBIOS Over TCP/IP (NetBT)
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/troubleshoot/n etbt.htm

Run "ipconfig /all" on that computer and look at the "Node Type" at
the beginning of the output. If it says "Peer-to-Peer" (which should
actually be "Point-to-Point") that's the problem. It means that the
computer only uses a WINS server, which isn't available on a
peer-to-peer network for NetBIOS name resolution.

If that's the case, run the registry editor, open this key:

HLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netbt\Parameters

and delete these values if they're present:

NodeType
DhcpNodeType

Reboot, then try network access again.

If that doesn't fix it, open that registry key again, create a DWORD
value called "NodeType", and set it to 1 for "Broadcast" or 4 for
"Mixed".

For details, see these Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

Default Node Type for Microsoft Clients
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en- us;160177

TCP/IP and NBT Configuration Parameters for Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en- us;314053
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
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Thank you ! I found this information on one of your other
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theads and it fixed one problem I had with another
computer yesterday. Thanks so much, I had the problem for
6 months.
However, it is not the problem on this machine.
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-----Original Message-----
I have a home network consisting of 4 XP Pro computers, 2
XP Home computers and 1 Windows 98 SE computer. Everything
is finally working together except one issue. I think I
have tried everything I can think of to solve this: One of
my computers running XP Pro can not be accessed from any
other computer in the house. I get "Not Accessible .....
Access is Denied" from every other computer. However, I
can ping this machine fine, it has 3 printers shared on it
which I can print to from all machines. It can access the
internet and it can see and access all other computers. I
just can't access it from any other machine.

I have been up and down this forum and have been able to
fix many other problems except this one. Thank you all so
much for the great help!

Please help!
Click to expand...

The fact you can ping it and get a response is a good start.

I don't suppose the in-built ICF (firewall) (or any other firewall for that
matter) is running on the box that cannot be accessed?
If using a firewall like ZAlarm, you need to ensure the trusted zone is
setup for your LAN IP addresses.

If there is no firewall involved, is the guest account enabled?

If not using the guest account, have you got every user logon/password setup
In local security settings, "Network Access Sharing and security model for
local accounts" needs to be set as "classic - local users authenticate as
themselves". and all users ids passwords must be the same *and* exist on all
the systems. The only other security policy option for this is "Guest only"
(this is the
default for XP).

If, like me, you disabled the guest account, this defaultoption won't work.
So you either setup all user ids/passwords on all systems
you wish to network between and set the security policy to "classic" or run
with the XP default and ensure the guest account is enabled from within the
local security policy "accounts: guest account status".

HTH.



.
Thanks for the help- This one finally fixed my problem- I
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had the access was set to Guest only. Everything works
great now that I changed it to Classic.

Thank you all for the help- I wish I had come here sooner.
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Glad to have helped.

Regards,
Graham.
-----Original Message-----


The fact you can ping it and get a response is a good start.

I don't suppose the in-built ICF (firewall) (or any other firewall for that
matter) is running on the box that cannot be accessed?
If using a firewall like ZAlarm, you need to ensure the trusted zone is
setup for your LAN IP addresses.

If there is no firewall involved, is the guest account enabled?

If not using the guest account, have you got every user logon/password setup

had the access was set to Guest only. Everything works
great now that I changed it to Classic.

Thank you all for the help- I wish I had come here sooner.
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